Dear,
I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes.
When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly. They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like "Fater error: failed to load <file name>.png : version error" for each icon.
If I log in as super user, everything is OK. Icons are OK. No error messages. Do you have any idea?
Thank you.
-john
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:33 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
Dear,
I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes.
When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly. They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like "Fater error: failed to load <file name>.png : version error" for each icon.
If I log in as super user, everything is OK. Icons are OK. No error messages. Do you have any idea?
Thank you.
Did you let it auto update your xorg.conf file?? After installing the driver?
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Yes. I did run the auto update.
-john
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:11 AM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:33 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
Dear,
I updated my nvidia graphics driver on one of the CentOS boxes.
When I log in my account, icons are not displayed correctly. They are displayed as small empty squares, and there are error messages like "Fater error: failed to load <file name>.png : version error" for each icon.
If I log in as super user, everything is OK. Icons are OK. No error messages. Do you have any idea?
Thank you.
Did you let it auto update your xorg.conf file?? After installing the driver?
-john _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:07 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
Yes. I did run the auto update.
Log into your user account, then go to ""Application | System Tools | Nvidia X Server Settings". sounds like you need to set the Screen resolution etc.
I changed the X server setting. It did't help. Ghost script opened pdf file before I upgrade the driver. It is not working either.
-j
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:07 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
Yes. I did run the auto update.
Log into your user account, then go to ""Application | System Tools | Nvidia X Server Settings". sounds like you need to set the Screen resolution etc.
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Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the problem as best as you can.
A. Before
B. After
Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot into root and then into you user account, just to be sure to catch all errors.
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
'Failed to load image <file name>.png Details: Fatal error reading PNG image files : zlib version error'
I still can run programs by clicking the icon locations. Most programs run correctly. Yesterday I found ghost viewer failed to open pdf file.
Curiosity: If I log in as superuser, there are not problems. All icons are displayed correctly. Ghost viewer read pdf files.
-john
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the problem as best as you can.
A. Before
B. After
Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot into root and then into you user account, just to be sure to catch all errors.
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
'Failed to load image <file name>.png Details: Fatal error reading PNG image files : zlib version error'
Run ldconfig as root in a terminal. Have you rebooted the machine? The Nvidea Readme sejust to do this. I have never had these problems with there drivers since beta. But had a plethora of problems with the DKMS ones. I am just happy they even suppport the card I use on this machine, because it is not supported in Windows.
I still can run programs by clicking the icon locations. Most programs run correctly. Yesterday I found ghost viewer failed to open pdf file.
Curiosity: If I log in as superuser, there are not problems. All icons are displayed correctly. Ghost viewer read pdf files.
On your regular user account you may not have a file association with the file your opening. Right click on the file and say open with. Or open with another application and select the one you want to associate with the file....
-john
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the problem as best as you can.
A. Before
B. After
Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot into root and then into you user account, just to be sure to catch all errors.
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
'Failed to load image <file name>.png Details: Fatal error reading PNG image files : zlib version error'
I still can run programs by clicking the icon locations. Most programs run correctly. Yesterday I found ghost viewer failed to open pdf file.
Curiosity: If I log in as superuser, there are not problems. All icons are displayed correctly. Ghost viewer read pdf files.
-john
After thinking about it for a while it sounds like the Windows Vista Problem with some video cards. But for some reason I just can't phathon that because you say it does not happen on the root account. Do lspci from root and send the line containing your video card. Maybe you can downgrade the driver if it is supported in an older release.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, lets start from the begining with what happened. Describe the problem as best as you can.
A. Before
B. After
Paste you system log file in the mail /var/log/ messages\ after you boot into root and then into you user account, just to be sure to catch all errors.
--
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
Sorry for all the mails but what version did you install? The Driver?
The version i installed is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run
-john
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:10 AM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
Sorry for all the mails but what version did you install? The Driver?
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I downgraded the drive, but it did not fix. I went back to the new driver.
-john
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, John J. Lee jjlee@lbl.gov wrote:
The version i installed is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run
-john
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:10 AM, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:38 -0700, John J. Lee wrote:
A. Before I upgrade the nvidia Linux driver, everything was normal. All programs worked fine. Desktop display was OK.
B. After I upgraded the nvidia Linux driver, the icon display on the desktop was not correct. All icons on the panel and menu bars became small empty boxes. Error message dialog boxes popped up with the message like
Sorry for all the mails but what version did you install? The Driver?
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-- John Juyoung Lee (510)486-7510 / jjlee@lbl.gov (510)301-2315 / john.jy.lee@gmail.com
Completly remove the driver, run ldconfig restart the machine. Use the ""Provided"' Open Source kernel drives for your video card. Simple Solution.
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, John J. Lee jjlee@lbl.gov wrote:
The version i installed is
""""""NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run""""""""
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.12.html
""Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 169.12 <-------------------------Released in Febuary of 2008 Operating System: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Release Date: February 26, 2008""
I don't know where you got the driver from but I Highly recomend not getting any from third party sites; Get them from the Vender Web Sight. This maybe the brunt of your problems of not have the newest driver. It may contain the fixes for your problem. Drivers from third party sites are modified to there liking, so keep that in mind.
Window's WHQL Certified drivers had this problem with the nividia card and a fix in the latest drivers corrects this issue.
1. Only other idea is if the "LATEST" driver want correct the problem, then the only choice is to use the open source drivers in the kernel. IE, remove the driver completly from Nvidia.
2. Next choice is to wrestle with DKMS and install the nvidia dkms driver from one of the other Repositories.
Anyone on the List know of a good DKMS tutorial besides the one at linux.dell.com? Relating to drivers? I do not want bits and pieces, I need reliable facts
On 03/04/2008, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone on the List know of a good DKMS tutorial besides the one at linux.dell.com? Relating to drivers? I do not want bits and pieces, I need reliable facts
Other than looking at http://linux.del.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf and Section #2 of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules (ignore the title of the article), what else do you need to know?
Alan.
On 04/04/2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl@googlemail.com wrote:
Other than looking at http://linux.del.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf and Section #2 of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
Apologies for typo in URL. It is http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdfhttp://linux.del.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf
Alan.
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